(13 Apr 2026, 9:19 pm)Adrian wrote Most land is private land, in that it is owned by someone. Whether that be a private individual, a business, a Council, or a public body. A piece of land can be private and a public place - and there's no legislation to prevent photography in such place.

This has come up before over the years, but to recap: Section 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972, to my knowledge, best defines a public place: "Public place” includes any highway and any other premises or place to which at the material time the public have or are permitted to have access, whether on payment or otherwise". So your example of a bus station, whilst being private land, is quite clearly a public place during the hours in which it's open. The Nexus supervisor, as an agent of the landowner, can civilly ask you to leave, but they can't do much more beyond that. Application of reasonable force in a civil matter is so much of a grey area, that I doubt they'd bother going down that route.

I should also add that to date, Nexus have never produced signage to prohibit photography. Their policy on their website is an ask, not a requirement. The specific wording in their policy is important: "Any person found taking photographs or filming on Nexus premises will be challenged by one of our team if that have concerns about safety or security. Nexus employees can use their judgement should they need to stop any filming or photography that could impact others safety and security. Please kindly comply with their requests."

In other words, they can ask, and they kindly ask you to adhere to the ask. None of this is qualified legal advice, but my personal opinion is that they'd have real difficulty enforcing that beyond being a civil trespass matter. Common sense would say stick to safe areas and don't put yourself or others at risk.

Not Nexus, but I once had a convo with staff at one of the Interchanges in South Yorkshire a good few year back and basically said that a lot of the reason for not wanting enthusiasts taking photos on their properties is because of situations like the above and they don’t want the aggro/hassle if someone complains about it, previously had people suggesting the usual assumptions people jump to, we were allowed to take pics by signing some form which I think basically enabled them to shut people up if they did complain - sadly the staff at Dinnington Interchange down there weren't so understanding, who suggested that if I was taking photos that they'd be contacting the police, I said no even though I obviously had, but ended up with them stood a few feet from me until I could get out of there which because of flooding turned out to be quite a while (that was a very fun day as little more than a hour prior I had to battle my way out of a fine for smoking outside Doncaster Rail Station, I don't smoke but those private security c-words seem to just exist to throw fines at people, never heard someone as disappointed as they were when they realised they couldn't do anything to me).

As much as it is a pain and we shouldn't have to go through some extreme confrontations with the public, it does unfortunately happen from time to time, worst I had was last year in Stockton Town Centre when I went to snap a Compass coach outside the Splash centre on the baths contract, despite nobody bar the driver being present on or near the coach, this chav starts shouting that I'm a f***ing pedo repeatedly, made all the more worse when a class of primary school kids were being led past us after this altercation had begun, to which dickhead suggested that I'd love to nonce on them and other statements along those lines, that incident really messed me up as I really don't deal well with any form of confrontation and the thought that people in that area at the time may be left thinking that I'm a nonce, which is not something you want to be known as given people generally want you dead.